No criminal charges will be filed in response to a perceived bomb threat Wednesday in Hixson, said a Hamilton County Sheriff’s spokeswoman.
No explosives were found after a suspicious truck was examined at Ark Care Storage on Hixson Pike, said Janice Atkinson, the sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Authorities have not said what – if anything – was found in the truck.
From 11:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, members of the Chattanooga bomb squad, sheriff office deputies and area emergency personnel blocked off traffic near the Ark Care Storage on Hixson Pike and evacuated nearly 250 homes in a 1.5-mile radius for safety reasons.